Secret is blowing up in Russia

Secret, the anonymous social app, has been titillating Silicon Valley since it launched in January, its status as a portal into tech sector gossip solidifying it as an industry must-read.

But — like Path, Google Plus, and so many before it — the question was whether the app would break out of its Valley niche to find broader success.

After rolling out globally last month, it looks like it has. At least in Eastern Europe.

According to App Annie, a mobile app analytics service, Secret is presently ranking near the top of the iTunes app store in Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia. Over the past week, Secret has at times claimed the number one spot among social networking apps in some of those countries.